Wild Rice

In Singapore, there is only one rule: be careful who you troll.&nbsp;Frustrated by the rigid, unforgiving system in which they try to make art, a bunch of irate artists start a fake petition to cancel Ariana Grande.&nbsp;Things get wildly out of hand when some Singaporeans take the petition so seriously that Ari’s upcoming concert comes under threat.&nbsp;In a whirlwind of competing petitions, frantic Zoom calls between Los Angeles and Singapore, and whispered conversations at the golf course, the campaign 

G*d Is A Woman (2023)

Multimedia Designer

ART:DIS

A tribute to the past, a moving story of forgiveness, the fate of an entertainment club rests solely on the shoulders of a visually-impaired girl. From battling against revolting employees who challenge her at every turn, to discovering her mother’s struggle to raise her to stand tall, this music theatre piece written &amp; performed by persons with disabilities reminds us to always have hope and to never stop dreaming.

Chachambo: Taking Flight (2023)

A hotel in Singapore is opened at the turn of the century, when the island is still a jewel in the crown of the British Empire. Each day, new faces appear and swiftly disappear – guests and staff alike.&nbsp;Every ten years, we check in to meet the hotel’s residents: Indian mutineers, Cantonese nannies, Malay film stars, Japanese soldiers, transsexual sex workers, wedding guests, suspected terrorists, and more. They live out the pivotal moments in their personal lives, as empires die and new ones are born f

HOTEL (2023)

Brian Gothong Tan

Between 1910 and 1940, as new immigrants flowed through the immigration station on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, Chinese immigrants faced massive discrimination because of America’s earliest racist immigration legislations. This captivating one-act music-theatre performance tells their stories.Building on the earlier Page Act of 1875 which banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first, and remains the only law to have been implemented, to preven

Angel Island (2023)

Co-Director

Set Concept

Multimedia Artist

Wild Rice and Victorian Opera proudly present The Butterfly Lovers like you have never seen it before. Fresh from its critically acclaimed world premiere in Australia, this thrilling international collaboration marks the first time this classic Chinese folktale takes ight as an original English-language opera.&nbsp;Trapped by the constraints of a rigidly patriarchal society, Zhu Yingtai boldly disguises herself as a man to pursue higher education. At school, she meets the bookish Liang Shanbo, and the prov

The Butterfly Lovers (2023)

Set Designer

The Necessary Stage

For Faith (Hossan Leong) and Hope (Kumar), the New Year is just another day. But when an old friend shows up suddenly, their lives are turned upside down. They find themselves embroiled with spies, childhood trauma and GENDER PRONOUNS.It's been almost 20 years since the gang met up. Will they be able to let go of the ghosts from their past? Will they be able to identify as ELDERLY? What world is this where the GAYBOURS are banging, the Health HOMOTION Board speaks the truth and MINISTRY OF NUCLEAR FAMILIES 

Old Gaze (2023)

Edith Podesta

In a city not unlike ours, where the rules that govern the bodies of women are not unlike ours, an unnamed woman wants to be a goddess of no consequence. Daughter of the mythical Arachne, she chooses anonymity so that neither her actions nor her power will bring harm to the world around her.But even as shame forces her to shrink into her own oblivion, she discovers that everything in this world, including her own body, is a shrine and sacred, despite the inconsequentiality that her society imposes on it.Map

Inconsequential Goddess (2022)

Video Designer

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

Havoc Girls &amp; Kamikaze Boys is a multimedia performance exploring the plight of youths and children going through social and political traumatic upheavals. Inspired by events such as the Arab Spring, the Hong Kong riots and the Thai cave rescue, the performance delves into the psychology, emotions and experience of youths that are swept up in these events.

Havoc Girls &amp; Kamikaze Boys was made available on Video on Demand from 24 to 30 January 2021.


Havoc Girls and Kamikaze Boys (2021)

Director

Welcome to the club! Make yourself at home, but this is not your house. Don't forget to tip us! We are your&nbsp;perempuan-perempuan joget&nbsp;(dancing girls) Zubaidah and Rukiah. Do you like our kebaya? Come to our club and we will share with you our stories and songs. Our show is not like other shows. This is a time travel show. We will bring you to the past—during the heyday of the 1960s - and to the future. You want to dance? Later we can dance. First, sit down. And enjoy the ride.

Directed by Alvin

Kebaya Homies (2020)

With all the pressures of school and growing up in Singapore, Wendy and her brothers would rather be anywhere else than their stuffy bedroom in Serangoon Gardens. Enter Peter Pan, who promises to take them on an adventure of a lifetime!&nbsp;

So up, up and away they go, journeying towards Neverland — an enchanted island where they never have to grow up. Along the way, they meet Ting Tong Bell’s fairy friends, bewitching mermaids and a motley crew of Lost Boys. But they soon discover the dangers lurking i

Peter Pan in Serangoon Gardens (2019)

Cake Theatrical Productions

Watch as live performance, film and writing collide in this magnetising event drawn from the voices of Singaporean writers.

With spirits and monsters, shadows and visions, fractured states of mind and&nbsp;displays of fantasy and haunting, this event is a psychedelic and spine-chilling&nbsp;dose of live-performance-meets-film as three actors interact with a swirl of&nbsp;characters captured on film.

These vignettes encapsulate the most electrifying and sometimes unnerving&nbsp;voices in Singaporean co

Glorious, Monstrous, Hantu Tales from Singapore (2019)

Director of Photography

Musical Theatre Ltd

Dr Lim Boon Keng is a prominent Singaporean historical figure responsible for helping to shape Singapore's history whom many may know as the namesake of Boon Keng MRT Station. The first Chinese boy to receive a Queen's Scholarship, he returned to Singapore in 1892 with a first-class honour in medicine. He founded schools, championed education for girls, rallied public support on many public causes of his day. For all his good work, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire, and yet he was accused of be

Lim Boon Keng: The Musical (2019)

As the Singapore Bicentennial is celebrated, six people form a group called Raffles Must Fall to examine our country's colonial legacy. Scenes from the past are re-enacted to better understand the nightmare of subjugation... and the dream of self determination.&nbsp;

Drawing upon a wealth of historical documentation, including speeches, newspaper articles and songs, the play confronts us with questions about how colonial structures still shape the society we live in today. Why celebrate the beginning of 

Merdeka (2019)

Ivan Heng is one of Singapore's most acclaimed actors. Glen Goei is one of Singapore's most celebrated directors. Together, they bring to life one of Singapore theatre's most iconic characters: Emily Gan, an abandoned girl who overcomes all odds to emerge as the matriarch of a distinguished Peranakan household.&nbsp;

Evoking the golden age of Straits-Chinese culture from the 1930s, this new production promises to be the most immersive version of Stella Kon's enduring classic yet. Step into our theatre an

Emily of Emerald Hill (2019)

Urban legend has it that Sophocles, the Granddaddy of Tragedy, died from holding his breath while reciting a particularly long line from Antigone, the story of a young woman from Thebes, who had the cheek to defy her uncle-ruler Creon to bury her brother Polyneices. Receiving a proper burial was a big deal then. The deceased without an appropriate send-off would be denied entry into the Underworld and forced to roam the shores of River Styx as a restless ghost forever. Antigone wasn’t about to let that happ

Rubber Girl on the loose (2019)

Singapore Repertory Theatre

A wickedly dark comedy based on a myth surrounding the Taj Mahal that "nothing so beautiful shall ever be built again".

Two long-term friends, Humayun and Babur stand guard at the Taj Mahal hours before it is to be unveiled at dawn. Among the Sacred Oaths of the Mughal Imperial Guards, they are forbidden to look at the monument, speak or lower their swords.

The play reaches a turning point as the guards are ordered to do the unimaginable and their friendship is tested to its limits.


Guards at the Taj (2018)

T:>Works (TheatreWorks)

The play is a patchwork of twenty short scenes revolving around an unuttered question – what are human relationships made of?&nbsp;

A woman wants divorce because there was never any love between her and her husband. On her wedding day, a bride discovers her fiance had an affair with each of her four sisters. A mother is stunned when she learns her husband is happy with their son joining the army and risking his life at war. Two best friends get into a savage fight because one of them recalls their first 

The Reunification Of The Two Koreas (2018)

Temple sees the invention of a mythological universe where all the quarters of the world are at odds. A sports hall, once the diplomatic meeting arena of the now opposing sides, stands desolate.

7 people, assailed, stand at the entrance of the great hall. Quickly, they enter and bolt the doors. Some nights they hear pounding on the doors but they keep very still and do nothing. Within the inner sanctum, they create their own rules, find their own order. They wait.

One day, they awake to find the doors

Temple (2018)

In 2015, we stripped our former studio bare to host the first iteration of Running with Strippers. Since then, Strippers has grown to embody the germination of ideas in arid spaces. Our meditations came into focus within the gaps. Dead spaces we saw as potential for fluid and divergent ways to meet minds and create. A space where art begets art. We saw a necessity to wrestle out of the ennui that threatens to cloud the creative space, that pushes risk, experimentation, defiance and stubbornness out of the p

Artist

TheatreWorks’ ‘Because I Love You’&nbsp;season opens by exploring the form and substance of relationships in&nbsp;13.13.13, digging into the tenuous bonds that bind, and betrayals that break. William and Samantha live a good life. They have the perfect arrangement – William doesn’t want marriage, and Sam doesn’t want kids. Lynn, William’s ex-girlfriend and now oldest best friend, desperately wants to marry but cannot. Lynn also wants children. William does what he believes is reasonable to help his oldest f

13.13.13 (2018)

This holiday season, W!LD RICE proudly presents&nbsp;Mama White Snake, the perfect musical for the entire family! Full of heart, humour and home truths, this epic adventure puts a cheeky, charming spin on the classic Chinese folk tale,&nbsp;Madam White Snake.

For all his young life, Meng has dreamt of adventures beyond the confines of Emei Mountain. But his mother and aunt have always kept him close, warning him of the dangers and strangers lurking in the outside world.

Finally, Meng decides he has ha

Mama White Snake (2017)

A foreigner from an ancient civilization, Medea becomes the perpetual outsider in a city defined by self-proclaimed civility and rule of law. When her husband deserts her to marry the daughter of the city’s Premiere, she is left utterly displaced. Facing imminent exile with nothing save the skin on her back, she redirects her anguish into vengeance, punishes her enemies and horrifies the populace by spilling the blood of her own children on their very ground.

One of the most fascinating mythological figu

Medea (2017)

Puppet Designer

Arts House Limited

Sonny Liew

Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestseller and Singapore&nbsp;Literature Prize-winning The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye,&nbsp;cartoonist Sonny Liew creates an all-new graphic novel for the&nbsp;stage. Using the superhero genre as a springboard to tell a story&nbsp;about ageing and mortality, the book for the stage looks to&nbsp;examine the limits of even superhuman abilities when confronted&nbsp;with the complex issues of greying societies, or when faced with&nbsp;the pain of losing loved ones to th

Becoming Graphic (2017)

Over three decades, The Necessary Stage and actors-collaborators who have been partners in the making of the company's devised plays have revealed to us over and over again - in profound, heartbreaking and funny ways - what it means to 'be' in Singapore.&nbsp;

Vinod | Radha Krishnan | Eric Sim Guan Yeow&nbsp;| Noorhayati Yusof&nbsp;| Sergeant Mok&nbsp;| Jali bin Mohd Fariz&nbsp;| Mrs Chua&nbsp;| Mrs Phua Su Lin&nbsp;| Alisha&nbsp;| Melly&nbsp;| Saloma and many more

Away from the buzz of the rehearsal 

Being Haresh Sharma (2017)

Production Designer

Spare Room Productions

A Brand New Show about Sexy! Sixties! Singapore!

The year is 1968, and a lavish Las Vegas style niteclub opens its doors for the very first time in the heart of Orchard Road.

Known for its international class topless revues, glamorous stars and lifestyle of the rich and famous of its time, Tropicana captured the imagination of the nation and brought some hard-hitting realities to light.&nbsp;Tropicana The Musical&nbsp;is a story less about tits than it is about balls. The balls of a nation of dream ma

Tropicana the Musical (2017)

A hotel in Singapore is opened at the turn of the century, when the island is still a jewel in the British Crown. It serves as an exotic pit stop for travelers who wish to explore the glittering expanse of the British Empire.&nbsp;

Each day, new faces appear and swiftly disappear – guests and staff alike. Every ten years, we check into the hotel and meet its residents. As Singapore morphs from British colony to Malaysian state to sovereign nation, its denizens experience profound and dramatic changes. We

Hotel (2016)

Are you living a life to fulfil someone else's purpose?

Helmed by Cultural Medallion recipients Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma of The Necessary Stage,&nbsp;Ghost Writer&nbsp;offers a glimpse into the lives of characters intertwined by blood and ties that bind - and suffocate.&nbsp;

A young dancer who has undergone traditional training feels dislocated within her artistic practice in her home country. A new expatriate wife detached from her immediate reality draws inspiration from the writings of stranger

Ghost Writer (2016)

Hotel (2015)

Pangdemonium

Billy has always felt like an outsider within his own family. Billy, you see, is deaf. He is also the only one who actually listens in his hopelessly dysfunctional, hilariously eccentric, fiercely argumentative tribe of bohemian weirdos.

Dad is an intellectual who behaves like a first-class idiot;

Mum is a mystery novelist who can’t solve the mystery of her own family;

Sis is a world-class opera singer in a downtown pub;

Big Brother is writing a thesis on speech while hearing voices inside his h

Tribes (2015)

No words heard written spoken can fix what is broken but
damn if we don’t try try try harder faster to be stronger better
than our yesterday selves so all eyes ears fists fingers we delve
into territory unknown how time has flown now we are standing
scared in the sacred soul-searching whilst naked wondering
wandering about this machine is there a place any space to pin
some
spare
hope

If a body seeks a home, it must either find or build one. Decimal Points [infinity] is a journey into an amusemen

Decimal Points [Infinity] (2015)

Pulitzer Prize Winner Annie Baker has crafted a hilarious comedy that presents a gleefully voyeuristic peek at actors’ behind-the-scenes shenanigans, revealing their weird and wonderful idiocies and idiosyncrasies.

Vivacious Theresa, shy Shultz, angsty Lauren, and gregarious James: four imperfect strangers join an Acting Class run by “Earth Mother” Marty, each one hoping to start the year with a brand new chapter in their lives. But it soon becomes clear that this is much more than an Acting Class, as th

Circle Mirror Transformation (2015)

Will you fight for freedom knowing the inevitable loss ahead?

A mother pins her hopes upon her son, unknowingly hindering his own dreams. A teacher struggles to accept her protégé whose ambitions steer her away from tradition. A writer drawn to his muse faces the reality of their unresolved chapter.

These relationships collide in The Necessary Stage's&nbsp;Gitanjali [I feel the earth move],&nbsp;a brand new interdisciplinary and intercultural production inspired by the writings of Nobel Prize winner R

Gitanjali [I feel the earth move] (2014)

Intercultural Theatre Institute

An original, evocative, multilingual and inter-disciplinary production, devised with ITI’s graduating actors who come from countries as diverse and distant as India, Italy, Bolivia, The Philippines and Singapore. Cloud Messenger tells their stories of living in Singapore, their struggles, joys and challenges, as well as the messages they wish to convey to their loved ones.

This production is a collaboration with some of Singapore’s leading artists such as Bani Haykal, Brian Gothong Tan, Jaclyn Tan, Steve

Cloud Messenger (2014)

The Necessary Stage's latest production by Alvin Tan and Haresh Sharma grapples with the issue of road rage.&nbsp;

A unique production involving social media interaction,&nbsp;Poor Thing&nbsp;will invite audiences to watch a video clip of an accident before they enter the theatre to catch the 'live' action on stage.

During the performance, more clips will be posted online which audiences can view and comment on.

Poor Thing&nbsp;challenges you to explore what drives road rage in Singapore.&nbsp;


Poor Thing (2014)

Presented by Cake Theatrical Productions in partnership with The Substation and curated by Natalie Hennedige,&nbsp;Decimal Points&nbsp;is a series of art experiments that fuel artistic creation through process and exploration. Over the course of two years (2011 — 2012), four artistic experiments are made, each helmed by an individual artist — Brian Gothong Tan, David Lee, Philip Tan and Rizman Putra. Each artist is encouraged to create from a personal place, finding entry points via the varying disciplines 

Decimal Points First Station (2013)

On the cusp of Japan's surrender during World War II, a Japanese general suffers a stroke and is tended to by a Malay gardener. As they spar, having heated debates about the war, the present is revealed: a Japanese man in a relationship with an Indian woman in Kuala Lumpur; his ex-wife coming to grips with an astrologer's predictions; their son, studying in the United States and confronted by his classmates about Japan's past.&nbsp;


Mobile 2: Flat Cities (2013)

Dreamplay: Asian Boys Vol. 1 is a campy, fabulous extravaganza charting the journey of a goddess, Agnes, after she descends to earth. Armed with fantastic powers, she is on a heroic mission: ‘to save gay men from themselves’.

And thus Agnes lands in Singapore, where a mysterious guide called ‘Boy’ offers to show her around. They travel through time, meeting with horny, sweaty rickshaw coolies, love-doomed resistance fighters during the Japanese Occupation, and the lonely drifters of a virtual landscape k

Dreamplay: Asian Boys Vol. 1 (2013)

Someone said the universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding.&nbsp;

Two actors move across a desert-like terrain.&nbsp;

Encounters between them gradually bring forth a dramatic landscape capturing at once, a dream-like state and the reality of their humanity.&nbsp;

A theatre performance in two acts.&nbsp;Illogic&nbsp;asks questions it can't answer and sets a path it won't follow.&nbsp;

Two actors. One moving terrain. Giving way to illogic.&nbsp;


Illogic (2013)

People.

Sticking it out in a hyper-real place. Doing things and saying things and thinking things out loud. They keep this up all day.

One Day in this Place&nbsp;is set against a backdrop of an imagined place at once familiar, at once kooky. This new Cake work features the emerging arts practitioners of&nbsp;In A Decade.


One Day in this Place (2013)

A woman is on a flight from

Tanzania to Singapore

In limbo she cannot sleep

memories recent and past play out

in her mind and

a spectre of a loved one appears out

of nowhere


one point six one eight (2013)

HOLLYWOOD.

A megalomaniac movie mogul [Adrian Pang] with a murky past, a bite that’s even worse than his bark, and whose motto is “live and let die”.

A struggling film producer [Janice Koh] with clear ambitions and a shady agenda: damsel in distress? Or manipulative, man-eating femme fatale?

A fish-out-of-water wannabe screenwriter [George Young], idealistic and hungry enough to do anything to make his way up the corporate food chain.

With the hottest screenplay in town up for grabs, the line be

Swimming With Sharks (2012)

Surround sound artist and music director Philip Tan takes it to the floor, tearing up notions of conventionality and turning it up several notches in an installation experiment with performance at specified timings. It's just what happens when the beats from his head let loose and possess a silver screen, kick a** speakers and whatever else is in the room. Okay, you get it, here's something in a performance space that really shouldn't be measured or defined except to say it's what happens when a brilliant m

Decimal Points 7.7 (2012)

A layered and moving exploration of power, sexuality, spirituality and survival in the post traumatic world, this multimedia, multiracial and multinational romp is interwoven with the stories and emotional landscape of its characters.&nbsp;godeatgod&nbsp;is an intimate, personal and at times funny exposition about trying to live a better life; a take on censorship in the context of art; and an examination of love and grief.


godeatgod (2012)

Everybody wants to rule the world…

And so does Wizard ABBA-k’adab-rah! All he needs is 3 wishes from the Genie in the Magic Lamp. But only Aladdin, a boy who is pure of heart, can help him get the Lamp. Together with Jasmine, the not-so-little Nyonya from the Blue Mansion, they head to the fabled Batu Caves.&nbsp;

But what treachery lies in store for poor Aladdin? When the Wizard traps Aladdin in the cave and kidnaps Jasmine away to his harem of Single Ladies in the exotic land of Ukenastan, will it b

Aladdin (2011)

Conceived and directed by David Lee, the second experiment in the&nbsp;Decimal Points&nbsp;series is&nbsp;0.01,&nbsp;a quest for perfection that eludes. A tiny piece in a puzzle that seems forever missing. A small voice that echoes all is lost, all is lost. Colliding dance, performance and drawing deep inspiration from the conceptual world of visual design,&nbsp;0.01&nbsp;seeks to create an illusionary world, at once tragic and fantastic, where the inhabitants reach for pure, unadulterated liberation in the

Decimal Points 0.01 (2011)

Visual Designer

Helmed by Brian Gothong Tan, the first experiment in the&nbsp;Decimal Points&nbsp;series is&nbsp;4.44.&nbsp;Intertwining performance art and cinema, and devised and performed by Jo Kukathas, Lim Kay Siu, Neo Swee Lin and Karen Tan, the existence of 4 individuals is pushed into hyper real levels through a series of live and filmic vignettes, blurring the lines of illusion and reality. Inspired by a range of television and film genres, and live performance styles,&nbsp;4.44&nbsp;sets life against a backdrop o

Decimal Points 4.44 (2011)

Conceptualizer

Do you understand what made me what I am?

“Before my breasts were grown, I learned that a woman is nothing in this world that men have made.”

Born in 1940s Singapore, Emily is an abadoned girl-child. But by dint of her native wit and cunning, becomes the matriarch of a distinguished household and Singapore society’s “hostess with the mostest”. But at what cost?

Her story, passionately played out against the glamorous backdrop of the decadent glory days of the Singaporean Peranakan community, celebr

Emily of Emerald Hill (2011)

A foreign journalist is taken to task after writing some objectionable articles. A university exchange student tries to organise a forum on campus and encounters obstacles.&nbsp;

The lives of these unlikely individuals meet and intertwine in The Necessary Stage's latest production. Characters clash, tensions run high, and truth is questioned. Can we turn back time and return to a harmonious past?

Who is allowed to speak out for what they believe? Do we welcome the views of foreigners? Or should they '

Balek Kampong (2011)

The art of living in the in-between&nbsp;is a collaborative art project featuring installation, film, performance, workshops and gigs that uncover the inspirations and fantasies that have catalyzed 5 years of works by Cake.

Over 5 days, a shophouse is transformed into a hotbed of images, words, sound, strange movement, magnetic encounters and unexpected happenings sometimes way into the night! Wander through the rooms, each flowing and ebbing with exquisite strangeness or come especially for the performa

The Art of Living in the In-Between (2010)

Peter Sau

One woman wrote a book on “Freedom from Fear” while the other struggled in fear.

The mother.
Accused&nbsp;of leaving of stillborn child in the locker.
Pleaded&nbsp;guilty.
Escaped&nbsp;jail sentence.
Ordered&nbsp;to do 80 hours of community service.
Abused&nbsp;by her husband.

The freedom fighter.
Accused&nbsp;of violating State rules.&nbsp;
Not&nbsp;guilty.
Did not&nbsp;escape detention. (in detention for the past 13 years)
Works&nbsp;for peace.
Abused&nbsp;by political opposition.

And F

A Madwoman's Diary (2009)

ACTION Theatre

The days of writing letters to one another slowly becomes a thing of the past as mobile phones and the internet make communication between individuals as easy as "logging-in". But in the evolution from pen and paper to keyboard and screen, have we compromised the way we express ourselves? Can we be just as romantic? Heartfelt? Honest?

Take a peek into the love of yesteryear and consider this... Whilst times have changed, perhaps Love remains the same.


Singapore Love Letters (2009)

The Finger Players

Flare&nbsp;presents a tapestry of characters whose lives are disrupted by the strange appearance of horses. These horses stalk them in the streets, show up in their living rooms and become at once a mesmerising and ominous presence.

In the wake of recurring tremors and in the face of these strange creatures, each character must come face to face with mortality.&nbsp;

This collaboration between The Finger Players and Cake Theatrical Productions is an original dramatic work that draws from each company'

Flare (2008)

Creative Designer

Temple sees the invention of a mythological universe&nbsp;where all the quarters of the world are at odds. A sports&nbsp;hall, once the diplomatic meeting arena of the now&nbsp;opposing sides, stands desolate.

Seven people, assailed, stand at the entrance of the great&nbsp;hall. Quickly, they enter and bolt the doors. Some nights&nbsp;they hear pounding on the doors but they keep very&nbsp;still and do nothing. Within the inner sanctum, they create their own rules, find their own order. Above all,&nbsp;t

Temple (2008)

David Lee, NUS student and President of the Association of Students for Self Expression (ASS), takes it upon himself to launch The Campaign to Confer the Public Service Star on JBJ. His plucky project takes him on an amazing adventure with both expected and surprising twists and turns.

Clara Tang, rising star of the Civil Service, is tasked to exercise damage control. In the most challenging mission of her career, she finds herself navigating the maze of New Singapore and Old Constraints.

So, would su

The Campaign To Confer The Public Service Star on JBJ (2007)

See the laundry in the machine.
It goes round and round.
See your reflection in the glass
you are a great sad clown.
Hello Mister. Hello Miss.
Where are you off to now?
May I join you on your way&nbsp;
into the great abyss?
I won't say a single word
or get in your way
I'll just be a companion. Grey.
It will be a grand nothing day.
Say yes. Say.

Nothing&nbsp;is an intimate observation of love and death. Various characters, some obscure, some mundane, some elusive, in various situations under v

Nothing (2007)

The Theatre Practice

A mother enjoys a close and playful relationship with her young children.

This intimacy is gradually lost as the children grow up and create their own lives, be it through going abroad for studies, entering the work force or building families of their own.

The use of new languages and new media, coupled with changes in lifestyle and society, widen this gap of communication.&nbsp;

Mama, on the brink of depression, turns to her cat for consolation and company, and begins to join the pet on its nightl

Mama Looking For Her Cat (2006)

In the bloodthirsty game of human ping-pong, only one can emerge victorious. The loser faces certain death. The queen bee sits on her throne. Watching with such intensity. She slips and slides. Watching. Watching. Her head turning on an axis, the bristles on her back erect, her sting so ready it's aching.

Then... all... of... a... sudden... the a...g...o...n...i...s...i...n..g cry of defeat.&nbsp;

AND IT'S ALL OVER.
THE TIME HAS ARRIVED.
THE WORLD HAS
STOPPED FOR
ONE PERSON.
AND THE B0TCH
BEGINS

Queen Ping (2006)

Cast

Tikam-Tikam: Malaysian Roulette is made up of over 30 extracts of texts from various kinds of writings by Malaysians or about Malaysia. There are whole poems and a couple of songs, and fragments of fiction and non-fiction taken from sources such as novels, plays, edgy magazine articles, as well as an extract from the memoirs of the US-based poet Hilary Tham who passed away recently. It follows then that the writers too are quite diverse. Among the playwrights, poets and novelists are a former Prime Minister

Tikam-Tikam: Malaysian Roulette (2005)

Publicity

Programme Designer

A year and a half ago, two poets crossed a line with a playwright and so started the journey that has culminated in this exciting work that braves the boundaries of genre, medium, state and time to bring us together.

Riding the Nice Bus&nbsp;was first conceived as an offering of Singapore literature to be presented as the Singapore contingent's item at the 2004 KL Litfest. The two poets, Alvin Pang and Madeleine Lee, were part of the contingent and eager to find a form for the item. The playwright's only

Riding the Nice Bus (2005)

The Tsunami tragedy on Boxing Day 2004 was one of the most traumatic crises in recent human history of natural catastrophes.

The Necessary Stage, with our history of engaging society and reality, will present a look at human behaviour in the aftermath of last year's tragedy.

Rather than impart a single narrative, this production will comprise voices of people affected by the Tsunami.

Texts, multimedia, sonic narrative, this production will be brought together in contemporary theatre practice, not t

Boxing Day: The Tsunami Project (2005)

After a sold-out run in August 2002, this year's godeatgod is a reconceptualised version of that original staging, with a new cast including Rody Vera from the Philippines, Eriko Wada from Japan and esteemed local actors Aidli 'Alin' Mosbit and Peter Sau.

A layered and moving exploration of power, sexuality, spirituality and survival in the post-traumatic world, this multi-national, multi-media romp is interwoven with the stories and emotional landscapes of its characters.

Writing in response to 9/11,

godeatgod (2004)

Mourning is such hard work.
You want to cry but you don't want to be unglam.
And what do you wear to your friend's wake if you have to go to a club after that?

The death of someone special causes a group of friends to re-examine their lives and their feelings about death.
Fundamentally questions are asked:
Will I go to hell if I'm a bitch?
Am I spending too much time at the Gym?
Can I be gay and married?

The group of friends soon make important realisations:
That you can be married and gay
Tha

Top Or Bottom (2004)

Get your Pride Flags out!
Mardi Gras&nbsp;is back!

After a successful sold-out run last year during Singapore's PINK month - August! - this sexycrazycool play is back to make you laugh, cry and gasp!

A group of people come together to organise Singapore's first Pride Parade. They plan to hold the March at the Padang, with dykes on bikes, fags and fag hags, leathers and feathers; they want to shout out loud and be proud...

As they plan, the tension mounts; the cracks in their relationships surface.

Mardi Gras (2004)

Different stories are interwoven in this multi-media, multi-racial romp

TWO BROTHERS: He needs Kor Kor by his side.
HUSBAND &amp; WIFE: Someone's dying and they can't do anything about it.
PATRICIA MOK &amp; NORLEENA SALIM: They want to change the rules and no one can stop them.

Once there were two of us... and that's it.&nbsp;


godeatgod (2002)

Teater Ekamatra

A collaboration across the Straits, Teater Ekamatra and The Actors Studio explore and articulate the issues on both sides of the Causeway. Separation, integration, alienation, kinship, hurt and reconciliation are unsparingly scrutinised in this script written by award-winning Singaporean playwright Alfian Sa'at. Be prepared for a daring interpretation fused with sensitivity and cutting insight.&nbsp;

Two motifs recur throughout the episodic play, blood and the bird. Two seemingly discordant chords locked

Causeway (2002)

Animator

A Chinese woman. A Eurasian man. Travelling like particles. Or waves. Through a window. A camera lens. The facets of a diamond. Transparency. Brilliance. Iridescence. Complete Work.


The Optic Trilogy (2001)

Animation Artist

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Theresa Tan in 1987. Theodora, better known as Theo, has been living alone in her university hostel. One day, a girl named Sandra dressed all in yellow, moves in. Their personalities and family backgrounds are worlds apart, resulting in their differing perceptions about the world they share. With a healthy dose of varsity dramas, boys, and an “unflushable poop”, this play tells the journey of two ladies who managed to come to some degree of mutual understanding of each other.

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Brian Gothong Tan

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